The purpose of this study is to introduce and analyse thernliterary techniques of some of the prose works o f Ethiopian womenrnauthoresses. As discussed in the introduction, literary studiesrnand comments both by Ethiopian and foreign scholars about thernfictional works of Ethiopian women authoresses that appeared t husrnfar to the public are very scanty and fragmentary.rnHence, the need for introducing and examining some of thernprose works of women authoresses arises from this reality. Thernpresentstudyhas, therefore, considered the fictional writings ofrntwelve authoresses for critical discussion . The works of thesernauthoresses have been selected based on three different reasons.rnThe first is the availability of the texts in the thr ee majorrnlibraries. These are: the libraries of the MU, the library ofrnMinistry of Culture and Sports Affairs, and the library of the AddisrnAbaba administrative region . The second reason is the common andrnunique characteristics of the authoresses in using different kindsrnof literary devices; and tidy the literary genres of the works.rnOther than the introduction and conclusion sections , thernstudy is di vided into three chapters . Included in the introductionrnwere : literary survey and comments which, directly or indirectly,rndeal with the main concern of the present study. The first chapterrnfocuses on two things. First , it tries t o convey the theoreticalrndefini tions and explanations of the li terary terms : narration andrndifferent types of points of view. Secondly, it discusses thernoutline of seven pre-revolution prose works and analyses some ofrnthe narrat ive methods (including the various points of view) whichrnthe authoresses use to unfold the materials of their stories . Therntexts are e xamined in the order of their date of publications.rnrnChapter two dwells on the various narrative techniques employe dbyrnthe post - revolution women authoresses. Al though the focus of thisrnchapter is to analyse the methods of narration, it has arnconsiderable diffe rence from the previous one . Apart from dealingrnwith such technical elements as point of view epistolary andrnflashback methods, chapter two will also attempt to introduce andrnexamine those new narrative techniques (the employment ofrntelephone conversation, foreshadowing, dream, and a story withinrnstory method) which are used only in the works of four post revolutionrnwomen authoresses.rnThe aim of chapter three, on the other hands, is to criticallyrnexamine whether or not the characterization, plot constructionsrnand language of some of the prose works of women authoresses arernappropriate , cons istent, coherent, concise, significant andrncredible. The summary and conclusion part of the study will providernthe summary of the work and also try to point out some weaknesses andrnstrengths of the authoresses under consideration . Therncontribution of women authoresses to the overall development ofrnmodern Amharic literature is also discussed in the last chapter .rnLastly, the appendixes present the full texts of the interviewsrnconducted with two "literary techniques " and the socialrneducational, material , family and literary backgrounds ofrnEthiopian women authoresses